Incorporation of Real-Time PCR into Routine Public Health Surveillance of Culture Negative Bacterial Meningitis in São Paulo, Brazil

• Claudio T. Sacchi ,

  * E-mail: ctsacchi@gmail.com

  Affiliation Division of Medical Biology, Department of Immunology, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Lucila O. Fukasawa,

  Affiliation Division of Medical Biology, Department of Immunology, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Maria G. Gonçalves,

  Affiliation Division of Medical Biology, Department of Immunology, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Maristela M. Salgado,

  Affiliation Division of Medical Biology, Department of Immunology, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Kathleen A. Shutt,

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Research Unit, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Telma R. Carvalhanas,

  Affiliation Center for Epidemiologic Surveillance, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Ana F. Ribeiro,

  Affiliation Center for Epidemiologic Surveillance, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Brigina Kemp,

  Affiliation Center for Epidemiologic Surveillance, Campinas, Brazil

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• Maria C. O. Gorla,

  Affiliation Division of Medical Biology, Department of Bacteriology, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Ricardo K. Albernaz,

  Affiliation Center for Epidemiologic Surveillance, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Eneida G. L. Marques,

  Affiliation Bacteriology Area, Department of Medical Biology, Instituto Adolfo Lutz Regional Laboratory of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

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• Angela Cruciano,

  Affiliation Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Eliseu A. Waldman,

  Affiliation Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• M. Cristina C Brandileone,

  Affiliation Division of Medical Biology, Department of Bacteriology, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Lee H. Harrison,

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Research Unit, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• São Paulo RT-PCR Surveillance Project Team

  ¶Membership of the São Paulo RT-PCR Surveillance Project Team is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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